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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · Aug 25

Here's my #MTGxSpiderMan teaser: www.tumblr.com/markrosewate... #mtg #WotCStaff

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💬 13 🔁 8 ❤️ 26 · Maro’s Spider-Man Teaser · Before previews for Marvel’s Spider-Man officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints…

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 10h

Today’s #mtgtrivia question:

Pro Tour Atlanta in 1996 was the only prerelease Pro Tour. Players opened Mirage packs having never seen the cards. According to the tournament data, opening what card most improved your win rate?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 10h

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question:

Foratog. It originally was “Sacrifice an untapped Forest” and not an Atog. I said, “This is basically an Atog,” so we tweaked it and made the second card in the original mega Atog cycle.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s #mtgtrivia question:

What Mirage creature wasn’t designed to be part of a mega cycle (meaning different cards are in different sets), but the design was so close we made into part of the cycle?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 1d

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia:

Maro. Mirage’s art director, Sue-Ann Harkey, found the illustration by Stuart Griffin, titled “The Green Man” at an art show and bought the rights to the image. I would later purchase the original art.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 2d

Today's #mtgtrivia question:

What card in Mirage has art that wasn't specifically illustrated for Magic?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 2d

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question:

Mangara is an anagram of the word "anagram".

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 3d

Today's #mtgtrivia question:

Mangara is one of the characters in the Mirage story. How did his name come about?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 2d

Today's #MakingMagic column is part 3 of my "Design Files" series looking at cards handed off for Odyssey: magic.wizards.com/en/news/maki... #mtg #WotCStaff

Design Files: Odyssey, Part 3

Discover some lost gems (and strange creations) from early Odyssey design.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 3d

Today's #mtgtrivia question:

Mangara is one of the characters in the Mirage story. How did his name come about?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 3d

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question:

Bill Sienkiewicz. He illustrated Phyrexian War Beast and Soldevi Steam Beast. For those unfamiliar with his work, Sienkiewicz is a very famous comic book artist.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 4d

Today's #mtgtrivia question:

What artist who appears in Spider-Man had their last Magic work appear in Alliances?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 4d

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question:

Phelddagrif. It is an anagram of Garfield Ph.D. The public relations depart always listed Richard as such, and it became an in-joke in R&D. Also, R&D joked that one day they'd make a flying purple hippo, so the card became that.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 5d

I just realized because I was traveling back from Atlanta, I forgot to post this week's #MakingMagic column. It's part two of my "Design Files" series about cards handed off during Odyssey design: magic.wizards.com/en/news/maki... #mtg #WotcStaff

Design Files: Odyssey, Part 2

Follow Mark on an odyssey in which he discusses cards from Odyssey's early design that made it to print.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 5d

Today's #mtgtrivia question:

Which Alliances card is a joke nod to Richard Garfield? And what's the joke?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 5d

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question:

Storm Crow (and its variant Crow Storm from Unstable).

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 5d

My second "Drive to Work" podcast is about #MCAtlanta (MagicCon Atlanta): share.transistor.fm/s/6b5d169d audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

#1282: MagicCon Atlanta 2025 | Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast | Episode 1282

I just got back from MagicCon Atlanta, and in this podcast, I talk all about it.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 5d

My first "Drive to Work" podcast (#1281) talks about the early one-drop creatures in Magic: share.transistor.fm/s/27db837b audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

#1281: Early One-Drop Creatures | Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast | Episode 1281

This podcast is a look back at the early creatures that only cost one mana.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 6d

Today's #mtgtrivia question:

What Alliances card inspired a variant with storm?

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 6d

Answer to previous #mtgtrivia question:

Gustha's Scepter, Library of Lat-Nam, and Soldier of Fortune.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s me when I was into a different kind of magic.

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Jay Annelli @vorthosjay.bsky.social · 8d

It also does not replace the Secrets of Strixhaven story, which will have its own web fiction!

With the way the economics of publishing currently works, pre-orders matter in a big way! PRH's website has a bunch of places you can go for that!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747400...

Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering) by Seanan McGuire: 9780593871430 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia. Eula Blue was supposed to be a ...

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 8d

Today's #mtgtrivia question:

The first three cards I designed to make it to print appeared in Alliances. What were they? (A trivia question for people who read/listen to my content.)

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 8d

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question:

Unlikely Alliance's art was originally called Marriage of Convenience and had Exile's rules text. I (and others) insisted we change it.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 9d

My second "Drive to Work" podcast (#1280) talks all about the prep I do for MagicCons (and this year's Atlanta one, in particular): share.transistor.fm/s/d90746f6 audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

#1280: MagicCon Prep | Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast | Episode 1280

In this podcast, I talk about the things I have to do to prepare for an upcoming MagicCon (in this case, MagicCon Atlanta).

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 9d

My first "Drive to Work" podcast (#1279) is all about Saviors of Kamigawa, the third set in the Champions of Kamigawa block: share.transistor.fm/s/225bd6f0 audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

#1279: Saviors of Kamigawa | Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast | Episode 1279

This podcast is another in my quest to talk about every Magic expansion. This time I talk about the third set in the Champions of Kamigawa block, Saviors of Kamigawa.

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s #mtgtrivia question:

What card in Alliances has the art that was originally assigned to the card Exile? (The card below shows the art we ended up using.)

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